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The painter's palette; a theory of tone relations, an instrument of expression (1919)

Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 18

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ETTE Light (LLt), and High Light (HLt). There are intermediates between these nine values which we are constantly using but they need no names, as we rarely, if ever, have occasion to speak of them or to write about them. THE SCALE OF VALUES White (Wt) High Light (HLt) Light (Lt) Low Light (LLt)… … COLORS The quality of light in any tone, its color, may be Red (R), Yellow (Y) or Blue (B); or it may be Orange (O), Green (G) or Violet (V) ; or it may be one of the intermediates, Red- Orange (RO), Orange-Yellow (OY), Yellow-Green (YG), Green-Blue (GB), Blue-Violet (BV), Violet-Red (VR).

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